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hondaicivic
Joined: 01 Jul 2010
Location: Daegu, South Korea
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 Posted: Tue Mar 01, 2011 6:10 pm Post subject: Matt Damon vs. Harvard educated idiot |
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ymsHLkB8u3s
^This is one of my favorite scene of Good Will Hunting. Matt Damon destroyed him with this line "You drop $150,000 on an education that you could have gotten for a $1.50 on late charges at the fucking public library"....This scene just reaffirmed my belief that college diplomas are nothing but toilet paper these days and that higher education is nothing but a racket. |
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sadguy
Joined: 13 Feb 2011
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| Posted: Tue Mar 01, 2011 6:15 pm Post subject: |
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shieeet, you don't even need a library card anymore, just google and wikipedia.
buuuuuutttt.... i was an art student and having class critiques were needed. i think it's important to be around your peers to at least discuss things to reach a higher truth. |
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nukeday
Joined: 13 May 2010
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| Posted: Tue Mar 01, 2011 6:19 pm Post subject: |
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| Yes, just like in the movies, janitors lurk everywhere ready to intellectually upstage you. |
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Leon
Joined: 31 May 2010
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| Posted: Tue Mar 01, 2011 6:42 pm Post subject: |
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| Matt Damon studied history at harvard. So he probably disagrees with you. |
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edwardcatflap
Joined: 22 Mar 2009
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| Posted: Tue Mar 01, 2011 6:47 pm Post subject: |
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| Ha, when I went to university the government paid for tuition fees, food, accommodation, and a little money for beer thrown in on top. They even let you claim social security benefit during the summer holidays. You would have been a total idiot not to sign up for that. I worked evening jobs as well and came out with a degree and some savings. |
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morrisonhotel
Joined: 18 Jul 2009
Location: Gyeonggi-do
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| Posted: Tue Mar 01, 2011 7:32 pm Post subject: |
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| Leon wrote: |
| Matt Damon studied history at harvard. So he probably disagrees with you. |
It says on his Wikipedia page that he read English. |
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Louis VI
Joined: 05 Jul 2010
Location: In my Kingdom
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| Posted: Tue Mar 01, 2011 7:35 pm Post subject: |
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| The point is: Matt Damon is a Harvard educated idiot. Confusing a character he plays in a film with reality is the greater idiocy. |
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ESL Milk "Everyday
Joined: 12 Sep 2007
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| Posted: Tue Mar 01, 2011 7:43 pm Post subject: |
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| edwardcatflap wrote: |
| Ha, when I went to university the government paid for tuition fees, food, accommodation, and a little money for beer thrown in on top. They even let you claim social security benefit during the summer holidays. You would have been a total idiot not to sign up for that. I worked evening jobs as well and came out with a degree and some savings. |
Wow... what country are you from? |
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hondaicivic
Joined: 01 Jul 2010
Location: Daegu, South Korea
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| Posted: Tue Mar 01, 2011 7:45 pm Post subject: |
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| Louis VI wrote: |
| The point is: Matt Damon is a Harvard educated idiot. Confusing a character he plays in a film with reality is the greater idiocy. |
I wasn't, I referring to Will, the character he was playing in the movie. Yea yea I know, I should have been careful with the wordings of my title. |
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WadRUG'naDoo
Joined: 15 Jun 2010
Location: Shanghai
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| Posted: Tue Mar 01, 2011 7:49 pm Post subject: |
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| Matt Damon vs. The Predator |
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eamo
Joined: 08 Mar 2003
Location: Shepherd's Bush, 1964.
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| Posted: Tue Mar 01, 2011 7:50 pm Post subject: |
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| ESL Milk "Everyday wrote: |
| edwardcatflap wrote: |
| Ha, when I went to university the government paid for tuition fees, food, accommodation, and a little money for beer thrown in on top. They even let you claim social security benefit during the summer holidays. You would have been a total idiot not to sign up for that. I worked evening jobs as well and came out with a degree and some savings. |
Wow... what country are you from? |
UK I'm guessing. Same as me. Except I faffed about and didn't go to Uni until the Conservatives had completely ruined the party for students and introduced partial grants and loans instead of 100% grants for living expenses.......so I had to borrow 5000 pounds over 3 years to buy my beer with!
Still got 100% tuition paid for though.....I hear they don't even get that now in the UK. |
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RMNC
Joined: 21 Jul 2010
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| Posted: Tue Mar 01, 2011 7:51 pm Post subject: |
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| Lots of profanity rule breaking in this thread, whoopsies |
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Leon
Joined: 31 May 2010
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| Posted: Tue Mar 01, 2011 8:31 pm Post subject: |
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| morrisonhotel wrote: |
| Leon wrote: |
| Matt Damon studied history at harvard. So he probably disagrees with you. |
It says on his Wikipedia page that he read English. |
Opps, but still at Harvard. There must be some other actor that studied history there that I was thinking of. |
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Steelrails
Joined: 12 Mar 2009
Location: Earth, Solar System
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| Posted: Tue Mar 01, 2011 9:01 pm Post subject: |
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| Applesauce! It's Hunting Season. |
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edwardcatflap
Joined: 22 Mar 2009
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Yes. Only a matter of time though before it becomes like the States. Nowadays the young generation are trying to get older people to feel guilty about getting all that free stuff but the mood was different when I did my degree. Only about 10% of people went on to higher education and there was definitely a sense of entitlement. Degree in any field = well paid white collar job. The government or people decided they wanted more people to go to university so they couldn't afford to pay for it any more. All different now and I would think a lot more carefully about what subject to do if I was going to invest all that money. Having said that, I've never wanted to go into business so I probably wouldn't have done things differently. Except maybe not have bothered getting a degree at all. Matt Damon's character's point could have been made about any formal education as there have been self taught people in all fields. |
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